Re: dot xxx live or not?

[Jorge Amodio <jmamodio () gmail com>]

TLD is delegated and alive.

pete@tango:~$ dig -t ns xxx

; <<>> DiG 9.7.0-P1 <<>> -t ns xxx
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 47132
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 6, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;xxx.                           IN      NS

;; ANSWER SECTION:
xxx.                    300     IN      NS      a0.xxx.afilias-nst.info.
xxx.                    300     IN      NS      c0.xxx.afilias-nst.info.
xxx.                    300     IN      NS      a2.xxx.afilias-nst.info.
xxx.                    300     IN      NS      b0.xxx.afilias-nst.org.
xxx.                    300     IN      NS      b2.xxx.afilias-nst.org.
xxx.                    300     IN      NS      d0.xxx.afilias-nst.org.

;; Query time: 100 msec
;; SERVER: 10.0.2.24#53(10.0.2.24)
;; WHEN: Fri May 13 12:10:59 2011
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 162

Anyway, I'd recommend them to read RFC2182 ...

-J